Mark 4:2

and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.

He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it.

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.

Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,

“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.